Friday is Independence Day and many people are gearing up for BBQ’s, picnics and fireworks. With the 4th of July falling on a Friday many people will have a nice kick off to the three day weekend.

Some will also take Thursday off, so I hope that I have an easy commute in the morning as I expect the drive home to be painful with people fleeing the Bay Area for a long weekend.

Of course there will be some beautiful fireworks gracing the skies on Friday night. I will hopefully get some good pictures to share.

I have some very good memories of fireworks shows. You can read about them in Fireworks Memories.

I am also having memories of the annual World’s Largest Turtle Race in Ashland, Kansas, which is one of the towns that I grew up in.

You can read more about a Small Town 4th of July in the post I wrote two years ago.

Click on the link above if you want to see me marching in a parade wearing a Boy Scout uniform.

You may also like my post, Spirit of ’76, where I shared this editorial cartoon by Frank Andrea Miller.

For a complete list of his editorial cartoons that I have shared, click on: Frank Andrea Miller

It is also turning out to be a Noisy Night, but not for the same reason that I wrote the post about a noisy night.

I am looking forward to a relaxing 4th of July with World Cup matches and then a BBQ with a co-worker before the local fireworks show.

Do you have big plans for Independence Day?

Steven